Biology Direct

30.1k citations
1.0k papers · indexed · active since 1950

Impact in

    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
    • RNA modifications and cancer

Papers in

    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 176
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 165
    • RNA modifications and cancer 111
    • RNA Research and Splicing 66
    • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 55
    • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research 75

Biology Direct

950 papers receiving 29.6k citations

Peers

Biology Direct
Comparison fields: 5 of 220
  • Molecular Biology 20.6k
  • Endocrinology 1.2k
  • Genetics 4.9k
  • Ecology 4.4k
  • Cancer Research 2.4k
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Countries where authors publish in Biology Direct

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Fields of papers published in Biology Direct

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This network shows the impact of papers published in Biology Direct. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Biology Direct.

About Biology Direct

The 1.0k papers published in Biology Direct in the last decades have received a total of 30.1k indexed citations . Papers published in Biology Direct usually cover Molecular Biology (779 papers), Cancer Research (152 papers), Aging (12 papers), Genetics (170 papers) and Immunology (80 papers) specifically the topics of Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (176 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (165 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (111 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (75 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (66 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (65 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (55 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (47 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Biology Direct are Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf, Kira S. Makarova, L. Aravind, Łukasz Kozłowski, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Gajendra P. S. Raghava, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, Vivek Anantharaman and Neil R. Smalheiser.

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